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reasonableklout • today at 12:56 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

I think the argument is that OpenAI should have done the work of cleaning up the proofs in the first place before dumping them onto the math community (or worked with mathematicians to guide the research process). It's as if an energy company dumped 20 tons of waste next to a village and the townspeople decided to clean it up. "How does this benefit the energy company" might not be the right question to be asking.


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howunfortunate • today at 3:50 AM

I'm struggling with the right analogy but the "waste" is more like...idk, hundreds of those giant crates they go through on antique shows.

The contents are actually extremely valuable, it's better to have them then not, but it still takes nontrivial expert work to sort and parse them.

simianwords • today at 3:24 AM

this is a strange analogy. no one is forcing the math community to read this